Franz Mauve

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Franz Mauve

Franz Mauve (* 11. November 1864 in Katowice ; † 12. December 1931 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German vice-admiral in the First World War .

Naval career

Mauve was on Crew 86 . From September 1903 he was 1st Admiral Staff Officer of the fleet. From December 1905 to April 1908 he was active in the admiralty staff.

Commander of a school cruiser

On April 4, 1908, he became the commander of the school cruiser SMS Victoria Louise, which came back into service . His first trip abroad began in July 1908. Since the ship was supposed to take part in an international balloon series ascent, a scientific commission was on board. The cruiser reached the Kalmen via Madeira and Tenerife , where the balloon ascents took place and a Victoria Louise balloon was able to set an altitude record of 21,800 m. On August 5, the scientists left the ship, which continued on its way to the Mediterranean. There it participated together with SMS Hertha in early January 1909 in an aid operation for Messina, which was badly damaged by an earthquake . The cruiser's first voyage ended on March 10, 1909 in Kiel. With a new class of ship's boys and midshipmen on board, SMS Victoria Louise first undertook a training voyage in the Baltic Sea in the summer of 1909 and then embarked on a second voyage abroad in August. The ship reached Newport via the Azores , where the SMS Hertha and the small cruisers SMS Bremen and SMS Dresden also arrived in September . The four ships took part in the Hudson-Fulton celebrations in New York from September 26 to October 9, 1909 , during which the official German representative, Grand Admiral Hans von Koester, was on board SMS Victoria Louise . The occasion of these celebrations were 300 years of first sailing on the Hudson as well as the start of regular service between New York and Albany with the steamship Clermont constructed by Robert Fulton in 1807. SMS Victoria Louise cruised through West Indian waters after the stay in New York and was on the 10th March 1910 back in Kiel.

In April 1910, Captain Mauve department head at the Naval Staff. From October 1911 to September 1913 he was in command of the liner SMS Pommern . He then became 2nd Admiral in the 2nd Squadron of the High Seas Fleet .

First World War

In August 1915 he became the head of this squadron. As chief of the older ships of the line, he took part in the naval battle of the Skagerrak on May 31 and June 1, 1916 . His slow squadron hindered the fleet chief and former squadron chief, Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer , who did not want to sacrifice the ships. They could hardly take part in the battle. On the night march back, his squadron was the target of an attack by British destroyers, which the former Mauve-led SMS Pommern fell victim to, which sank with the entire crew. The more than 800 dead in Pomerania were almost a third of those killed on the German side.

On November 8, 1916, he gave up command of the II. Squadron and took over the newly formed IV. Put up for disposition on September 23, 1917 .

Franz Mauve is buried in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf near Berlin.

Awards

literature

  • Dermot Bradley (eds.), Hans H. Hildebrand, Ernest Henriot: Germany's Admirals 1849-1945. Volume 2: HO. (Habicht to Orth). Osnabrück 1989, ISBN 3-7648-2481-6 , pp. 452-453.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j Ranking list of the Imperial German Navy , Ed .: Marinekabinett , Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1914, p. 109